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...Currently, gifted programs too often admit marginal, hardworking kids and then mostly assign field trips and extra essays, not truly accelerated course work pegged to a student's abilities. Ideally, school systems should strive to keep their most talented students through a combination of grade skipping and other approaches (dual enrollment in community colleges, telescoping classwork without grade skipping) that ensure they won't drop out or feel driven away to Nevada. The best way to treat the Annalisee Brasils of the world is to let them grow up in their own communities--by allowing them to skip ahead...
According to local observers, the two could be the biggest beneficiaries of a dual retirement by the current councillors...
Despite the panel’s opinion, Sullivan insisted in his farewell speech that he could legally hold both positions, and that he was leaving the council because “serving in the dual positions has meant some extremely long hours away from home...
...report also promised guidelines to promote diversity in faculty searches across the University as well as on hiring and retention of dual-career couples. Hammonds said the guidelines would be a “flexible supplement to existing faculty search handbooks...
...says. "You make the choice to nurture your kids, and people think it's great. But does it put a crimp on your career? Yes, very definitely. When I finish this process, I will have spent 15 years on a professional plateau." Ingram finds that his colleagues accept his dual commitments, his leaving every night before 6, or by 5 if he has a soccer practice to coach. In fact they are more accepting of his choices than those of his female colleagues. "I get more psychic support than women do," he says. "And I feel great about spending more...